Ibrahim al-Basbous

Ibrahim al-Basbous (1956-) was the General Director of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces from 27 June 2013, succeeding Roger Salem.

Biography
Ibrahim al-Basbous was born in 1956 in Daraya, al-Chouf, Lebanon to a Sunni Muslim family. He married engineer Iman Basbous and had three children, and he had a master's degree in IT administration before getting involved in the military and internal security. On 10 January 1974 he joined the military college as a cadet and became an officer in 1977, and on New Years' Day in 2005 he was promoted to General. On 27 June 2013 he was appointed as General Director of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces after the end of Roger Salem's brief tenure, and his retirement was pushed back in 2015 so that he could continue his role in internal security.